Luyện nghe bài hát Woody's Rag/Hard Work

words and music by Woody

While we're on the subject of work, I just wanted
to say that I was a man to work.

I was born and I worked my way up by hard
work. I ain't got nowhere yet but I got there by
work.

Work of the hardest kind. I been and I been out
and I've been busted, disgusted and be trusted.

I worked my way up and I my way down. I've
been drunk and I've been sober. I've had times
and I got hijacked and robbed for cash and robbed
on credit.

Worked my way jail and outta jail and I woke up
a lotta mornings and I didn't even where I was at.

But the hardest I ever done is when I was trying
to get myself a worried woman to my worried
mind.

Now I'm gonna tell you just about how hard
work I had to do to get this here woman that I'm
you about.

I shook with 97 of her kinfolks and her blood
relatives and I done the same 86 people that was
just her and her neighbors.

Kissed 73 babies and put dry pants on 34 of 'em, as
as others, and done the When thing times, as well
as a lot of other things just about this.

I held 125 head of wild horses, put and bridles
on than that, harnessed some of the craziest,
teams in the whole country. I rode 14 loco
broncos to a dead standstill and let 42 dogs lick
me all over.

7 times I was bit by hungry and I was chewed
all to by water moccasins and rattlesnakes on
2 separate bottoms.

I chopped and I carried 314 arm of stoved
wood; 100 buckets of coal, and I carried a of
kerosene 18 miles and lost a good of shoes in a
mud hole.

And I and I weeded 48 rows of short cotton,
13 acres of bad and cut the sticker weeds out of
11 back yards, all on a 'cause I wanted to
show her that I was a man and I to work

I cleaned out 9 barnloads, and 31 automobiles,
all and models, pulled 3 cars out of mud
and 4 out of snowdrifts.

I dug 5 cisterns of for some of her friends and
neighbors and run all of errands.

I the fiddle for 9 church meetings and I joined
11 separate denominations. I signed up and
up for 7 of the best trade I could find and paid
my dues about 6 ahead of time, waded 40
of swamps, 60 big rivers, walked across 2
mountain ranges and 3 deserts.

I got the and I got the sun stroke and I got the
and I got the flu and I got moonstruck and
skeeter bit, the ivy and the 7 year itch and the
staggers.

I was given up for lost and about 2 dozen times.
Struck by lightning, by Congress, struck
by friends and kinfolks, as as by 3 cars on
the highways and a lotta times in
henhouses.

I been hit and run and run over and
walked on and knocked around and I'm
settin' now trying to study up what else I
can do to show that woman that I still ain't
of work.